Soil reinforcement is a very useful technique to construct several cost-effective soil
structures in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. The most commonly used
reinforcement materials are galvanised steel strips geosynthetics in the form of woven
geotextiles geogrids and geocomposites and fibres from natural and waste products. In recent
years there have been advances in the area of soil reinforcement especially in the
utilization of the technique in field projects. The researchers have also been working to
understand the behaviour of reinforced soil considering the field challenges of reinforced soil
structures. This edited volume contains contributions on advances in reinforced soil structures
mainly flexible pavements footings embankments stone columns piles and slopes as covered
in the subject areas of geosynthetic engineering and fibre-reinforced soil engineering. The
first paper by Ioannis N. Markou presents the details of sand-geotextile interaction based on
interface tests with conventional and large-scale direct shear equipment. The second paper by
Atef Ben Othmen and Mounir Bouassida examines the interface properties of geosynthetic
reinforcement by carrying out inclined plane tests under low confinement adapted to landfill
covers conditions. The third paper by J.N. Jha S.K. Shukla A.K. Choudhary K.S. Gill1 and
B.P. Verma deals with the triaxial compression behaviour of soil reinforced with steel and
aluminium solid plates in horizontal layers. The fourth paper by M. Muthukumar and S.K. Shukla
describes the swelling and shrinkage behaviour of expansive soil blended with lime and fibres.
The fifth paper by S.G. Shah A.C. Bhogayata and S.K. Shukla provides the test results of shear
strength of cohesionless soil reinforced with metalized plastic waste. The sixth paper by
Bouacha Nadjet compares the geotextile-reinforced and geogrid-reinforced flexible pavements
based on numerical analyses. The seventh paper by S. Kumar C.H. Solanki J.B. Patel P.B.
Sudevan and P.M. Chaudhary reports the results of laboratory model tests carried out on a
square footing resting on prestressed geotextile reinforced sand. The eighth paper by Sanoop G
and Satyajit Patel presents the numerical studies on ground improvement using geosynthetic
reinforced sand layer. The ninth paper by ------------------- discusses the bearing capacity
prediction of inclined loaded strip footing on reinforced sand by ANN. The tenth paper by
Mohamad B.D. Elsawy presents the numerical simulation of an embankment constructed on
reinforced soft soil with conventional stone piles. The eleventh paper by N.O. Sheta and R.P.
Frizzi deals with the analysis design construction and monitoring of a
geosynthetics-reinforced-earth pile-supported embankment serving as an access road. The twelfth
paper by S. Banerjee A. Adhikari S. Chatterjee and D. Das provides the details of a case
study on reinforced slope on soft soil for the approach of a major bridge. We do hope the
researchers and the engineers may find the contributions in this volume very useful. This
volume is part of the proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on
Sustainable Civil Infrastructures Egypt 2017.
